Name/Title
Arthur Willey House | Park Street, Cherryfield, Maine | Cherryfield Historic DistrictDescription
Cherryfield, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
Cherryfield Historic District
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.91:
ARTHUR WILLEY HOUSE
This Victorian home was built for Arthur R. Willey about 1876-1877. It is built in wood and has a distinctive three story tower with decorative wood ornamentation, and triple round headed windows in the third story. The main part of the house has a mansard roof, heavy ornamental lintels, bracketed cornice and bay windows. A carriage house once stood behind the bam. AFN
From: National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
Section number 7, Page 10:
18. Arthur R. willey House, c. 1876 - C Park street
Another of the remarkable group of Second Empire style houses in Cherryfield, the Willey House is an asymmetrically massed two-story frame building with a large three-story entrance tower located on the north side. The house is ornamented with a variety of features including bracketed bay windows, cornices, window hoods, and dormers, as well as a patterned shingle roof. The tower, whose scale dwarfs the main block of the house, has an elaborate porch and trios of round-arched windows in each side of the third story. Weatherboards cover the house and a portion of the attached barn at the rear.
A member of an extended family which included lumber manufacturers, merchants, and a justice, Arthur R. Willey was for many years the Cherryfield town clerk.
